Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 08:36:05PM +0000, Simmons, James A. wrote:
> >We are hopefully going to get rid of OBD_ALLOC_LARGE() as well, though.
> >
> >It's simple enough to write a function:
> >
> >void *obd_zalloc(size_t size)
> >{
> >	if (size > 4 * PAGE_CACHE_SIZE)
> >		return vzalloc(size);
> >	else
> >		return kmalloc(size, GFP_NOFS);
> >}
> >
> >Except, huh?  Shouldn't we be using GFP_NOFS for the vzalloc() side?
> >There was some discussion of that GFP_NOFS was a bit buggy back in 2010
> >(http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=128942194520631&w=4) but the current
> >lustre code doesn't try to pass GFP_NOFS.
> 
> The version in the upstream client is out of date. The current macro in the Intel master
> Branch is:

That's not helpful at all, why do we even have an in-kernel version of
this code if you don't do your development in the kernel?

Please sync with the kernel tree very soon, or I'm just going to delete
this whole thing.  This is getting _really_ frustrating.

greg k-h